(If you can name possibly the most beautiful laptop that’s hiding in the last photo, we can be friends!)
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@marzagao got it right! It’s Data General One, an early laptop of truly beautiful proportions. I still have a framed poster of it somewhere. *swoon*pic.twitter.com/EZRtm4svud
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A great submission from
@josch: “Customers at the computer-section of a Karstadt department store in West Germany. (1983)”pic.twitter.com/O8klVRV3mU
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And, I really love this, from
@thomasafine: “Shopping for the latest in computer and video games at Toys 'R' Us, 1983”pic.twitter.com/XK3FNcp83W
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Ricardo B
This one is very good. https://twitter.com/0xdeadbeefcafe/status/1280939012727898112?s=21 …https://twitter.com/0xDEADBEEFCAFE/status/1280939012727898112 …
Marcin Wichary added,
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I reached out to Dick Heiser by
@ShortFormErnie’s recommendation, and he shared two extra photos. Love the energy of the first one – Gary Shannon happy with his creation of Very Tiny Language (smaller even than Tiny Basic!).pic.twitter.com/KiEH9pWxsA
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I bought and scanned this photo for you! “Jay Fulce tries out a new wordprocessing program on an Apple Power Macintosh at the Computize Store at 9647 Southwest Freeway. Fulce recently purchased a Macintosh for his home for personal and business use.” Houston, TX, 1994pic.twitter.com/sxq0Uj5m6x
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A 1985 photo: “Skip Mandich, owner of Milwaukee’s 2nd Bytes computer store.”pic.twitter.com/s12X5I5lgn
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I’ve since discovered there’s a whole category of “computer store owner or employee poses typing on the best machine being sold in said store.”pic.twitter.com/KdsQaADBy8
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Replying to @mwichary
What's that machine on the right there? I don't recognize it.
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Which one? I see two on the right. :·)
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